Josh Cande Presents The Roadrunner Monitor

  Albany - The Linn-Benton campus was filled with faces new and old on Thursday, April 20, when the college held its annual ExploreLB event. Laughter filled the air, children ran around tables, and games were played while prospective students met with faculty to learn about Everything the school can offer. Across the campus tables were set up with faculty describing their classes and programs. From Dental Assisting to choral programs, creative writing, human services, anthropology, technology and others, the many opportunities at LB were put on display. Raymund Ocampo interviewed several prospective new choir members in the Learning Center and made sure to advertise his international award-winning program:  “Music is the elective with the largest enrollment, and we’re always looking for new members! We have so many talented people both teaching and performing and we look forward to our travels to the United Kingdom in the summer. Everyone is welcome and we have a lot of fun.” ...

Albany- The Roadrunners split another pair of games on Saturday, April 22, this time with Umpqua Community College.  LB dropped the first contest by a score of 2-1 before winning the second 3-0. The Beaks entered the day with a record of 20-12, including a 15-9 tally in divisional play. At the end of the day, LB stood at 21-13 in the NWAC standings and 16-10 in the South Division. Umpqua started the day with a 19-13 record overall and finished with a 20-14 record after the double header. In the first game, the Roadrunners managed to get on the board first in the bottom of the sixth inning; Camden Christenson singled to get things started. This was followed by an RBI by Titus Dumitru, who singled to left field and allowed Christenson to score. In the top of the 7th, Umpqua managed to get two runs home, which proved to be the final scores in the contest. For the game, LB had 6 hits and struck out 9 times while pitchers Chase Reynolds and Kellan Oakes recorded 10 strikeouts of their o...

Albany – The Linn-Benton Board of Directors held a meeting to review and vote upon several resolutions on April 19, relating to administrative compensation, and campus safety. The event also saw the swearing in of the new Student Leadership Council. Several faculty, as well as community members voiced their opinions on the board’s legislative proposals. The primary interest to many attending was the elimination of faculty librarian positions. The relevant legislation, Board Resolution 32-23, which would increase administrative salaries, was perceived by many to be funded by the termination of these positions. Almost 20 letters were sent in support of the faculty librarians. Impassioned defenses were sent to the board, displaying the strength of the LB community. Tension was in the air as throngs of faculty, staff, students, and community members packed into Calapooia Center to hear the board speak about the potential policy changes affecting campus. Lined along the walls, sitting on ta...

SALEM – The Roadrunners baseball team split a pair of games with the Chemeketa Storm on Saturday, April 15. The Beaks won the first game by a score of 3-2 before losing the second with a reciprocal score of 3-2. Improving their overall record to 20-12 over the past week, the Roadrunners recorded five consecutive wins over Chemeketa and Mt. Hood. This winning streak ended in the second game of the doubleheader on Saturday with the loss to the Storm. LB took advantage of errors in the first game to score 2 runs. The first game was scoreless until the top of the sixth inning after Titus Dumitru singled and then Trey Nelson doubled, allowing Dumitru to head for home. Nelson then advanced to third on an error, and advanced to home plate after another error. Chemeketa managed to score a run in the bottom of the seventh inning on a single by Chemeketa’s Biddinger. With the score at 2-1, the Roadrunners ended up putting the game away after Durham Sundberg was walked to first and then scored af...

Almost one year removed from winning the championship, the Linn-Benton Baseball team finds itself in a challenging yet highly promising scenario this season to take home another NWAC title. Sporting a 15-11 record after a loss to Mt. Hood, they are focused on the April 13 game at home versus Chemeketa. As the season continues into the second half, the men have the goal of repeating as champions of the NWAC, according to coach Andy Peterson. “We want to make the playoffs, win our games and take home another title, definitely. That’s the plan,” Peterson said. “We have a good amount of returning players, this team is a family, and we believe in one another. Our pitchers are great, our hitters are great and we just need to execute.” As Pacific Association Division Coach of the Year and part of the coaching staff that helped bring the Oregon State Baseball team to the College World Series, Peterson’s laurels are as impressive as one could ask for. His focus on team chemistry has manifested ...

  TOPIC: "ON WRITING” -- After reading the first 50 pages of Stephen King's "On Writing”:         King's book is rich in description and vivid stories about his childhood, and the reader is adroitly informed of the upbringing which lead him to be the writer he is. While stories of a personal printing press and malicious babysitters illuminate the audience to the darkness and horrors of King's experiences and inspirations, it is not any horror story that is most memorable to me. Instead, King's adventures with his brother seem to me to be the fuel behind his entrepreneurism and willingness to put himself into the world. Perhaps no anecdote is as telling as his magnet experiment with his brother, encapsulated by the following: "Dave cut the cord off an old lamp someone had put out on the curb with the trash, stripped the coating all the way down to the plug, then wrapped his magnetized spike in spirals of bare wire. Then, sitting on the floor in the kit...

$975. That wasn’t the amount that I wanted to owe Chemeketa Community College. With a half grimace on my face while staring at the balance due section of the college’s website, I faced a significant obstacle in attending in the fall semester.  After several years away from college, I had taken a piano class in the winter of 2022. Getting an A in the course encouraged me to take another, and I figured that in the spring Spanish 101 would be good for my working life as well. Owing the college money was a problem, however. So, I figured that searching the surrounding area for community colleges might offer the opportunity to receive financial aid. Luckily, owing one college money won’t stop you from getting financial aid from another. Linn-Benton, only 30 minutes away from my home, seemed like a good campus to explore. On a sunny August afternoon, I drove over to Albany and toured the Linn-Benton campus. This was after a conversation with my mom, wherein she told me that she couldn’t ...